The World According to Leslie

Chasity has finally made her decision! After a few days of going back and forth, she has decided to officially play baseball AND softball!!  We signed her up on Saturday.  Although Saturday was, I do believe, the coldest day of the year so far, she went to baseball camp for about an hour.   We can see how this goes.  Try-outs are this weekend.  Games start in March! I think she will like it once we get started!

Tony and I have owned (actually made payments on and then sold) two homes.  We actually owned ONE home and sold it.  Anyways, most of the time that we have been married, we have been renters.  Yes, I know that renting just puts money in someone else’s pocket.  Yes, I know that you can get tax credits for owning a house. Yes, I know that there are a million-and-one benefits to owning a home.   However, there are a few perks to renting. 1. If you are renting and it’s a townhome, you don’t have to pay the homeowner’s association fees or go to the homeowner’s association meetings.    You get to leave that to the actual homeowner.   2. When the security alarm (etc.) people call wanting to sell you something for your home, you can say “I rent” and they hang up more quickly than you can!   BONUS!   3. When you come home from the grocery store and your refrigerator has decided to stop working, and the stuff in your freezer ha...

Today is the 3rd of 3 days that I have to work on a Saturday.    At the beginning of the year, my county had a 3 day Orientation for new teachers.  Since I was not hired until September, I have had make up days –December, January, and February.   I get paid for showing up.    The first day was a lot of taking notes and learning.  The 2nd day was taking notes in the morning and lesson planning in the afternoon.  Today is going to be the same way.  So I am taking two laptop computers…. mine and the one from the school!   I can’t stand to TYPE on the one from the school.  The keyboard is very small.  But, my computer does not have the SMART Board software on it.   I have a lot of stuff to take with me to get to this afternoon.  If I get to it, then I am going to need both computers.     I wonder what they are going to feed us for lunch today!